With an untrained eye, it’s easy to miss the western burrowing owl. If the northwest dwellers suffer another low reproduction year, the owls could doubly be missed, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

On her way home from work on a recent wintry night, Kathy Keane ran into a group of people quietly watching a pair of great horned owls perched on a tree in Lincoln Park. “I started hearing the ‘hoot, ...

MUSKEGON, Mich. (WOOD) — Snowy white visitors from the high Arctic have been spotted in West Michigan this week, and scientists say there is a good chance we will see more than usual this year.

RAMONA RAMONA — Five small but mighty owls were introduced to their new home on the Ramona Grasslands Preserve Tuesday — part of an ongoing effort to reverse the rare species’ shrinking population. At ...

After spending about three weeks this summer in the Arctic on remote Bylot Island in Nunavut, Canada, studying snow owls, Jean-Francois Therrien has migrated home to Hawk Mountain Sanctuary near ...

The National Audubon Society’s 125th Christmas Bird Count will be held through Jan. 5. Today we show you some of California’s owls, particularly the burrowing owl, a candidate for the state’s ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Those hoping to catch a glimpse of some great horned owls in their natural habitat this breeding season are in luck. And they won’t even have to leave the ...

Biologists present a study on a Northern Spotted Owl pedigree, consisting of almost 14,200 individuals over 30 years, which determined inbreeding varies across the species' range. Selection against ...

This story was originally published by Hakai Magazine and is republished here by permission. A male snowy owl hovers briefly, aloft in the breezy Arctic air, before diving at field researcher Denver ...